Tuesday, 26 February 2013

An article by Alia Wallace in Papers from the Institute of Archaeology is available in PDF form from the journal's website here.

Abstract:

Mass tourism can have many negative impacts on archaeological sites. As tourism increases, so does the need to actively manage these concerns. At the archaeological site of Pompeii this is particularly evident as tourism and its physical impact increase each year. This paper begins with a historical overview of the development of Pompeii as an archaeological site and heritage attraction and goes on to present the preliminary results of research into how presentation and interpretation can be used as a tool for site conservation and preservation at Pompeii. In 2011, extensive visitor observations and movement mapping were carried out to understand how visitor behaviours impact the site and how visitors move throughout the site. In depth interviews were also conducted with visitors to understand why they visit Pompeii and what they want from the experience. The results have provided a starting point for understanding how to develop a sustainable interpretation and presentation strategy that utilises the vast site more effectively and provides a better visitor experience.

The eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet paradoxically preserved the ancient
city of Pompeii, providing a vivid glimpse into the daily lives of
ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of the site in the 1700s,
centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi, Ingres and Alma-Tadema to
Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have been inspired to re-imagine
it in paintings, sculpture, photographs, performance and film. While
exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of Pompeii have been numerous,
this is the first time this ancient city and cataclysmic event is
explored through the lens of modern creators and thinkers. Featuring
nearly 100 works, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse,
Resurrection will be on view from February 24 through July 7, 2013.

The eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet paradoxically preserved the ancient
city of Pompeii, providing a vivid glimpse into the daily lives of
ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of the site in the 1700s,
centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi, Ingres and Alma-Tadema to
Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have been inspired to re-imagine
it in paintings, sculpture, photographs, performance and film. While
exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of Pompeii have been numerous,
this is the first time this ancient city and cataclysmic event is
explored through the lens of modern creators and thinkers. Featuring
nearly 100 works, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse,
Resurrection will be on view from February 24 through July 7, 2013.

The eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet paradoxically preserved the ancient
city of Pompeii, providing a vivid glimpse into the daily lives of
ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of the site in the 1700s,
centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi, Ingres and Alma-Tadema to
Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have been inspired to re-imagine
it in paintings, sculpture, photographs, performance and film. While
exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of Pompeii have been numerous,
this is the first time this ancient city and cataclysmic event is
explored through the lens of modern creators and thinkers. Featuring
nearly 100 works, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse,
Resurrection will be on view from February 24 through July 7, 2013.

The eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet paradoxically preserved the ancient
city of Pompeii, providing a vivid glimpse into the daily lives of
ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of the site in the 1700s,
centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi, Ingres and Alma-Tadema to
Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have been inspired to re-imagine
it in paintings, sculpture, photographs, performance and film. While
exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of Pompeii have been numerous,
this is the first time this ancient city and cataclysmic event is
explored through the lens of modern creators and thinkers. Featuring
nearly 100 works, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse,
Resurrection will be on view from February 24 through July 7, 2013.

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"The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection" opens in
Cleveland
The untitled sculpture by Anthony Gormley is shown during an exhibition
called "The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection"
at The Cleveland Museum of Art Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, in Cleveland.
Gormley's sculpture was inspired by Gormley's 2002 visit to Pompeii. The
exhibition will be on view from Feb. 24 through July 7, 2013.
CLEVELAND, OH.- The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet
paradoxically preserved the ancient city of Pompeii, providing a vivid
glimpse into the daily lives of ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of
the site in the 1700s, centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi,
Ingres and Alma-Tadema to Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have
been inspired to re-imagine it in paintings, sculpture, photographs,
performance and film. While exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of
Pompeii have been numerous, this is the first time this ancient city and
cataclysmic event is explored through the lens of modern creators and
thinkers. Featuring nearly 100 works, The Last Days of Pompeii:
Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection will be on view from February 24
through July 7, 2013.
Organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum,
the title of the exhibition, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence,
Apocalypse, Resurrection, is inspired by Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Last
Days of Pompeii, an incredibly popular 1834 novel that combined a
Victorian love story with sensational subplots of pagan decadence,
Christianity and volcanic eruption. The book was presented as
archaeologically accurate and helped transform Pompeii into a place to
stage fiction. It captivated generations of readers, prompted tourists
to visit the site and inspired many works of art in a wide variety of
media.
“Each generation creates a new Pompeii for themselves,” stated Jon
Seydl, exhibition co-organizer and The Paul J. and Edith Ingalls Vignos,
Jr. Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture (1500-1800) at the
Cleveland Museum of Art. “It’s an astonishingly rich subject for
artists, who have returned over and over again to Pompeii, remaking it
to suit the preoccupations of their own time.”
Mixing chronology and media, the exhibition breaks down according to
three broad themes. Decadence looks at why we consider Pompeii as a
place of luxury, sex, violence and excess. Apocalypse explores Pompeii
as the archetype of disaster—the cataclysm to which all others are
compared—from the American Civil War and the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki to 9/11. And Resurrection considers how Pompeii has become a
place to re-create and recast the ancient past.
The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection contains
six galleries of remarkable works of art exploring these ideas from more
than fifty public and private collections in Europe and the United
States, including the Louvre, the National Gallery of Art in Washington,
the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Appearing
only in Cleveland is a suite of ten large paintings by Mark Rothko,
preliminary studies for the Seagram Building commission in the late
1950s. Rothko eventually withdrew from the project, and this is the
first time these ten works have been exhibited in the same space. Also
appearing in the Cleveland show is a 1991 installation called The Dog
from Pompei by American artist, Allan McCollum, which brings together 16
replicas of perhaps the best-known of all the body casts from Pompeii, a
startling work that has a powerful impact on the visitor.
“The scale of the disaster and the remarkable archaeological record have
inspired some of the most interesting and important artists of the last
three centuries,” stated Seydl. “All these artists used Pompeii to
create entirely new stories that tell us much more about their own time
than about antiquity.”
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eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet paradoxically
preserved the ancient city of Pompeii, providing a vivid glimpse into
the daily lives of ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of the site in
the 1700s, centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi, Ingres and
Alma-Tadema to Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have been inspired
to re-imagine it in paintings, sculpture, photographs, performance and
film. While exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of Pompeii have
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event is explored through the lens of modern creators and thinkers.
Featuring nearly 100 works, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence,
Apocalypse, Resurrection will be on view from February 24 through July
7, 2013.

CLEVELAND, OH.- The
eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet paradoxically
preserved the ancient city of Pompeii, providing a vivid glimpse into
the daily lives of ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of the site in
the 1700s, centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi, Ingres and
Alma-Tadema to Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have been inspired
to re-imagine it in paintings, sculpture, photographs, performance and
film. While exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of Pompeii have
been numerous, this is the first time this ancient city and cataclysmic
event is explored through the lens of modern creators and thinkers.
Featuring nearly 100 works, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence,
Apocalypse, Resurrection will be on view from February 24 through July
7, 2013.

The eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet paradoxically preserved the ancient
city of Pompeii, providing a vivid glimpse into the daily lives of
ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of the site in the 1700s,
centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi, Ingres and Alma-Tadema to
Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have been inspired to re-imagine
it in paintings, sculpture, photographs, performance and film. While
exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of Pompeii have been numerous,
this is the first time this ancient city and cataclysmic event is
explored through the lens of modern creators and thinkers. Featuring
nearly 100 works, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse,
Resurrection will be on view from February 24 through July 7, 2013.

The eruption of Mount
Vesuvius in A.D. 79 destroyed, yet paradoxically preserved the ancient
city of Pompeii, providing a vivid glimpse into the daily lives of
ancient Romans. Since the rediscovery of the site in the 1700s,
centuries of leading artists—from Piranesi, Ingres and Alma-Tadema to
Duchamp, Rothko, Warhol and Gormley — have been inspired to re-imagine
it in paintings, sculpture, photographs, performance and film. While
exhibitions dedicated to the archaeology of Pompeii have been numerous,
this is the first time this ancient city and cataclysmic event is
explored through the lens of modern creators and thinkers. Featuring
nearly 100 works, The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse,
Resurrection will be on view from February 24 through July 7, 2013.

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This captivating book explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii and Herculaneum – the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were buried by the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The plaster-cast bodies of the victims are the most vivid shocking reminders of the horrific event that made Pompeii famous, but who were these men, women and children so cruelly frozen in time?

Exploring striking new discoveries and over 200 sensational artefacts, the author, who is the curator of the exhibition, brings the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum back to life from the ashes and ruins of their own homes. Amongst the artefacts are magnificent mosaics, a carbonized wooden cradle and a birth certificate of little girl, each of which is accompanied by stunning new photography.

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

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In addition, Dr. Nicolas Monteix from Université de Rouen will give a presentation on Tuesday, April 23rd at 6 pm at the Finnish Society of Classical Philology. The title of his presentation is “Pistrina. New insights on Pompeian bakeries (2008-2012)”. The location is auditorium III at the main building of University of Helsinki (Unioninkatu 34).

Thursday, 14 February 2013

Call for participants – Spring break classes, Summer boot camp in physical anthropology, and excavation of a Roman villa with baths on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius

The Apolline Project is an open research network, which sheds light on the hitherto neglected past of the area to the north of Mt. Vesuvius, in the bay of Naples. The project has run actively since 2004 and has several components, with current major work focusing on a Medieval church and a Roman villa with baths buried by the volcanoclastic debris of Vesuvius.

The Apolline Project is now open to applications for the 2013 lab and field activities, which can be divided into three groups: lab works during Spring break, Summer fieldwork at the Roman villa with baths in Pollena Trocchia, Summer School in Human Osteology at the Medieval church in Pernosano.

Came across this today in my daily search for all things Pompei related-- more about the modern city but of interest to all of us interested in sustainable tourism and regeneration of the local communities. Could be a great opportunity to get some ideas out there or to open up a discussion forum- full details are released the 14th.http://www.99ideas.it/site/ideas/home/idee/per-pompei.html

ven if you are not actually considering submitting an idea, I would be interested in knowing what you, as people who have worked/lived in the modern city, would think are viable ideas to "developing the attractions present in the area, innovating and improving the local economy and enhancing the tourism and culture sector, with the aim of rendering the city more attractive, welcoming and livable."Please share your thoughts! I already have about 99 ideas of my own!

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Poor Pompeii continues to hit the headlines: five people are being prosecuted on corruption charges and for failing to carry out restoration works to required standards during the period in which the archaeological site's management was taken over by a Special Commissioner. Following investigations into the works on the large theatre and other areas, which cost 8 million euros, the five who have been charged include representatives of the specialist building company, the Special Commissioner Fiori himself, and the director of works

Friday, 1 February 2013

A new book is out!Privata Luxuria - Towards an Archaeology of Intimacy: Pompeii and Beyond edited by Anna Anguissola originates from an International Workshop held at the Center for Advanced Studies of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich in 2011.